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It looks like the widening and straightening of Civic Center Way in Malibu wIll go ahead. But Malibu’s city council last night adopted most of the changes suggested by the planning commission … The planning commissioner came if for some criticism from members of other commissions …. When it requested seven changes in the roadway […]

National Park Service officials announced yesterday that a mountain lion  was shot to death in the Santa Monica Mountains by a ranch owner. The male mountain lion, believed to be 4 or 5 years old, was dubbed P-56 after it was caught and outfitted with a GPS tracking collar in April 2017. The killing was […]

= 71 mile per hour winds hit Paradise Cove this morning. = The cougar that was killed had been successfully driven away for 8 months … before he returned one last time. = The Civic Center Way project will go ahead … minus a bike lane … but with some changes. = But not so […]

=  55 mile an hour winds hit Paradise Cove overnight …. more on tap tonight. =  The city council hears an appeal from the city staff on a city planning commission ruling tonight. = Malibus efforts to separate the school district from Santa Monica … trudge along. =  Ventura County puts a new Firehawk helicopter […]

Efforts to split Malibu out of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District continue. A political effort that began about 10 years ago is seeking to break out Malibu … which through an accident of history and geography is connected to the Santa Monica district even though separated by a chunk of Los Angeles … Santa […]

This is KBUU News – The Monday Headlines = 55 mile an hour winds hit Paradise Cove overnight …. more on tap tonight. = The city council hears an appeal from the city staff on a city planning commission ruling tonight. = Malibus efforts to separate the school district from Santa Moncia … trudge along. […]

=   8 foot high tides coming Saturday and Sunday mornings. =   Malibu may retreat … from its plan to put up a vehicle gate at the Ponty Dume Nature Reserve. =   But whether this prevent the Coastal Commission from ordering construction of a 22 space parking lot up there … an open […]

Malibu may retreat from efforts to build a vehicle gate at the Point Dume parking lot … But it my be too late to avoid a big fight with the California Coastal Commission. The city manager is recommending that the city withdraw its plans to add the vehicle gate at the Point Dume Nature Reserve […]

Some very high high tides are coming this weekend. The full moon … plus the relative positions of the earth and moon at this time of year … will make these king tides. King tides occur about twice a year when the sun and moon align to enhance the gravitational pull that produces normal, daily […]

=   The Coastal Commission staff says Malibu is underestimating the effect of ocean level rise on beach access at Trancas. =   And they say Malibu keeps people off public beaches to keep non-whites out. =   A 12 point 7 percent increase in major crime in Malibu last year. =   Tye former […]